Tuesday, January 24, 2006

There are a million and one people whom you would call friends.

To me many are acquaintances, whom you hardly see more than 5 times in a year... and then there are those who used to be close friends, that drifted away because of their new job, new statuses (got married and need to spend time with hubby, in-laws and own family - no need and no time for us friends).

So who do you call friends really ?

Just the other day, I saw this really naive and i think stupid quotation it says.. "you are judged by the quantity and quality of friends you have" If that is how one is judged, then i guess whoever is judging is having a false sense of security, and a really superficial way towards life.

I can call the bangala that cleans up my corridor every morning as a friend, because i see him more than 5 times a year and he always greet me good morning and i always return the greeting to him.

I can also call the groomer that grooms my dogs a friend because i groom my dogs at least 3 times a year and both at different times (for those who dont get it, it means.. i get to see at least her 6 times a year at least)

I can also call the cashier in NTUC friend because i got craving for junk food this week and i have been visiting NTUC almost everyday.

So you get the drift that I have a million friends and not counting those penpals i have all across the globe.. so what does that make me? More superior than you?

I wonder if by the quantity of friends this person makes via the internet how many can really stand by the test of time. How many would actually help you when u are in need?

I do not demand my friends to tell me EVERY SINGLE DETAIL of their life, for instance.. how many times u have been shagged by your husband last night.. how many ex-bfs you have had, how many gay partners you have scored - i dont think these are important. But if you choose to tell me, I would listen and not blabber off to the next person i see.

whether or not your friend chooses to tell you things or not it is their right .. not yours. And if your friend chooses not to tell you some things that you eventually find out, it doesn't mean that they have lied, they are just withholding some information from you.

And when that happens, you have to examine yourself and ask why did that person not tell you such things? Is it because they dont deem you worthy(trustworthy) of the information?

for instance, it once happened to me that a friend of mine have been sleeping around, with strangers and I did not know that until i came upon it by accident. So why did she not tell me? Because she knows i dont approve and feels strongly about it therefore would embark on a tirade if i knew.

So what is quality of friends?

Let me tell you a profile of a person 30 years old soon, spent money studying overseas but never got to complete it. been a loafer since coming back to Sg, in absolute denial that he's been loafing and sponging off the parents. Having basically niche credentials, he thinks $1400 is too little to be paying him to get his butt off his cushy chair and go work. Till today, he has nothing to his name, not even a year of working experience. regrettably, he has no gf/bf till today but is that a surprise?

so tell me if this person is worthy to be called your friend anot ?
Is there any positive/redeeming quality in him?

Now is he paid an hourly rate working at his dream job (events job) - not an impressive hourly rate because he has got no experience (and if I hadnt wasted my breath persuading the boss to give you an hourly rate, you would be working your ass off with just 50$ per day!)

Whether or not, he can make it as a full time staff, only time and his work attitude will tell. But the other day he was grousing (as always full of grouse) that he has been made to do so many proposals .. if you dont like the job, quit it. Dont drag my name down the mud because i was the referrer.

I am not at all holy, neither can i withhold my anger very well, but I think if there come a day I am indeed judged by what I have done for people whom i called friends (worthy or not I dont know)then I can safely say that I have done whatever is within my capabilities of a friend on a clear conscience.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Yesterday i officially started to delve full time into this spring cleaning business for the iminent CNY. Kinda late i know.. but been busy doh~

Started out with minor stuff and today im reorganising my entire room and its a mess really it is.

Yesterday, I started to plant ribbons along the corridors.. not to decorate the corridors but to colour up the leafy plants right outside my home. Then went to decor those in the balcony and was cleaning up the toilets (my forte and my pet peeve - Super duper clean toilets) when my mother started grousing about the blinds that's been more than 20 years old not cooperating after she scrubbed them clean.

So since I was also thinking of reorganising my work desk.. filled with stacks and stacks of notes and books (reference, library and whatnots) I suggested us going to Ikea to quickly grab some stuff back and continue with the spring cleaning.

What resulted was a sumptous tea with my mother at the Ikea cafeteria, with meatballs and poached salmon *yum* and 3 trolley full of loot.

Heh, so much for grabbing some stuff back quickly.
We intended to go buy new blinds and me magazine holders and we really got more than what we have bargained for.

Total shopping bill : close to 500$
Satisfaction gained from the shopping experience : priceless

cliche i know.. but heck.. i gotta make a blog post soon anyway ;P

Thursday, January 19, 2006

its high time i stopped working there. Been too busy to really commit.
Am here today, sorting out the accounts and im really seeing no point in doing such nonsense.
Especially since it is not my business - and it doesnt really pay very well, considering after lessing off transport and others.

Well, a promise is a promise.
My boss did asked me to help him out till end of this month and yes.. that's probably about the best i can commmit

Datelines are so catching up on me.. and to my horrors.. an assignment im supposed to be presenting next week.. i dint even know where the case study came from!

I handed up one big assignment only today... and there are so many more to come.
I really cannot juggle my time.
Need a break..
That also means..

No more shopping spree....
*sniff*

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

God may nto have been fair when he created humans both man and women.

but one thing that may be said about brides are that they are always happy and beautiful in their wedding photoshoots.

Look at this radiant bride.. i love this photographer.. wonder what's his fees are like.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ickleoriental/416862.html?mode=reply

School started.
worked on a standstill.

on the first week of school, I was given more than 10 assignments to complete. And it is already week 3 of the 6 school academia weeks.

all my modules finishes in 6 weeks time, so you can imagine.. how tiring it is, to be keeping up with time, rushing out pages and pages of assignments.

I just gotten 3 of my last semester assignments back. got pretty good grades but I dont know if i can do another such act this semester.

busy busy busy ...
I have got like 3 assignments due this week.
I have to hand in one today- got it done two weeks ago.

another one due on friday done yesterday but needed some finetuning.
Another one due on thursday.

While I would like to say that I have been pretty hardworking - quite lar.. considering I have been quite diligient with my readings.

I just havent found the time to do my other assignment due on thursday. I return home everyday at 6 + - 7pm, then its dinner time. Then its time to help clean up the house for the chinese new year before i get so fatigued, I just wanna lie down and sleeep.

Perhaps the fact that i detest that stupid psychology tutor also plays a part in my procrastination. So bitchy, so vengeful can't even sniffle in peace when i had a runny nose. she would go " yeah.. i saw that ... " in her unusually high pitched voice and she somehow reminded me of a secondary school friend.

I used to have this friend who is hainanese singaporean chinese, who would declare that she knows the latest fashion because her cousin is a SIA Stewardess *roll eyes* and this cousin buys her Body Shop Cucumber eye gel because she has got dark eye circles.

Then one day while we were out watching a movie, she would then teach us how to tie a scarf round her neck in the most fashionable way by rolling the thing into a long strip and then pull over your neck and stuff the rest into one's growing bosom then - v fashionable meh?

now that I am thinking of it, she is probably trying to buff up her pretty non-existent bosom with that act of hers. I sniggle still when i think of it.

she is also the one who would call me up one day before the tests to ask me how to do this sum and that sum and refuse to hang up the phone until it was quite late at night. And then voila! when we get our test results back, she got distinction and you guessed it right .. i barely made it.

truth be said, I kind of enjoy having her likes in the world, so that it helps to bring out the best of the best (like me -ahem) but keep them far far away from me.

they do nothing but rub me off the wrong way - just like that tutor who is off to do her doctorate soon. Such pest need not advance in such a manner, for they only serve to piss others off more.

ennough of my venting, I needed to stay objective and complete all tasks set before me, so that at the end of it all, I may emerge victorious with the certificate which i have worked so hard for.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

my father bought a brand new car... and wanted to sell his old one

Last nite, he told me if i am interested he is willing to let his old car (4 years +) go at 27K which have a scrap value of 10+K at the end of 10 years.

I was working out my sums today, when he came back and announced, he sold it off to his colleague.

..........

Monday, January 09, 2006

Finished reading this book last night, something i borrowed from a friend of mine. Done it cover to back cover in less than a day?

Interesting, although it doesnt cover in details the things she did during her reign, but still provides an insight into the politicking that goes on in the imperial palace during the olden dynasties.

For those of you who are not familiar with Chinese History, Empress Wu (武则天)is the one and only female emperor in the history of china - no mean feat seeing that china is such a chauvinistically male dominated country until today.

In the book written by Master Lilian Too, she speaks of how Empress Wu, struggles to be who she was, a shrewd, intelligient, ruthless ruler who brought her subjects much woes and her lands much prosperity who first enters the royal palace at the tender age of fourteen to be a concubine.

A very fast paced book, but for those of you who would wanted to know more about china's historical woman and the power she wields during her reign would be sorely disappointed.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Yo, did not go mia.. just that im so tired, when im home, i just want to sleep.
It sure aint easy trying to balance work and study at the same time.

The last one week of 2005 to the new year has been quite crazy. Hectic in fact, because the company im working with is in the midst of preparation for countdown concert.

While i would like to give u a blow by blow account of I went through, I think i shall spare you the agony of wad exactly i went through, take my word for it, it was a really crazy week!

okie, summary of my last few days of 2005 and the first few days of 2006

30 to 31st December : dint sleep
(working through the night in a hotel room, stupid me dint take photo!)
1st January 2006 : slept at 4am on the 1st
1st January 2006 : woke at 8.30 on the 1st to go for my seminar
1st January 2006 : finished my seminar at 6 pm
1st January 2006 : went for dinner
1st January 2006 : mahjong until 8am on the 2nd
2nd January 2006 : slept all the way till the 2nd
3rd January 2006 : school started at 830 on the 3rd

exciting? superbly tiring!!

Let's show you some pictures:

This is us, working on the wee hours (3+ am) of the 31st checking out the stage, lights etc


My pretty colleague who had a severe eye infection had to work with her eyes bandaged like a one eyed pirate


The front of the house where i would be sitted during the entire concert


during the rehearsal on the day itself. I think it is grasshoppers.. cannot remember already, my 不珍气camera refuses to cooperate. Sigh... my boss testing out his walkie...


Me at the front of the house.. i was stationed there, from 12 noon to 2am, 31st dec -.-


Dick and cowboys, who were our opening act gave a superb show. Here he is, lao die, with our manpower managers.


haha Group picture! my only chance rubbing shoulders with the celebs. (pun intended)


Edmund So (grasshoppers), yours truly, Calvin Choy (Grasshoppers), my pretty colleague (Joy), my boss (Kris), Remus Choy(grasshoppers), my colleague and fren bernard, Dick (lao die), Sharon - our production overseer.

one celeb missing, dave wang. He was no where in sight when we took this photo.
I got most of the pix from bernard,谢谢你! who got the most celeb action, while i got none. here's one of him with dave wang, who is still very charming despite his age. *swoons*

Monday, January 02, 2006

Oh, how was yours?

I will update about my very exciting new year preparations soon. Some pictures to show ya.

And I need to get somemore, cos I was on the job most of the time, kinda difficult to take a breather.

Keep checking in.